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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
When i first started cleaning Carl's apartment (attached to his parent's house), his schedule had him at work at 7am each morning by his mom's preference. He is not very heat tolerant, sunburns easily and has been known to get heat sick at work in summer, so she wants his hours to be early.
They've not been complying with her request the last couple of summers but have kept his hours short enough for him to be able to keep up.
This week he's back to a 7am start and it means when i get there at 6 i have to hit the ground running and not look back. They also, unfortunately, want him to stay until 3pm. It's going to be very hard on him.
I noticed Carl was already dressed, in long sleeves and long pants no less, so i asked if he'd showered and he said he had. I then asked if he wanted to wear cooler clothes since he would be working a long day and said, "Working on it," and headed to the kitchen to hunt up breakfast.
This is when i started looking and realized he might need help finding shorts and a short sleeve shirt, so off to the laundry room. Yep, in the dryer, and actually about 90% dry. I turned the clothes on for a bit and went to see about his ice vest and lunch.
He'd obviously been chivvied by Ms. V to get ahead of the game and make some lunches. One of the sandwiches he'd already nibbled on. He lives to eat, this one.
I went to the kitchen to grab other items to add to the sandwiches and he and i passed each other so many times i almost asked him if he wanted to dance, but i refrained. He wouldn't have understood the joke.
As usual, he kept up a running conversation.
"Where's the tea?"
I turned to look for it and he was already pouring some (and getting it on the counter) off to something else.
"Went to the fitness club, it was a limited time offer from work, and it's expensive..."
Those places do cost, i agreed.
"We got together this weekend...quiz. Um, we had a quiz. They asked about geography, bugs, animals..."
He trailed off and then came back with, "I was out until almost twelve Saturday night!"
It's most unusual for him to be out late, it must have been a special occasion.
Then it was, "I need to take up a hobby...art or something...what do you suggest?"
I told him it depended on what he liked best and got back to his room without having to explain hobbies cost money and take up space, and he has neither to spare.
Speaking of spare,
he's leaving change everywhere again and we had to have "the change talk."
You're up to almost $30 in change, i told him, so you need to take it to the bank, but not Friday.
"Why not Friday? I have the day off..."
It's a holiday, i told him, and the bank won't be open.
He started at me, then went to change into shorts and a short sleeve shirt, leaving the clean long sleeve shirt and long pants on the floor of the closet where i'd already picked up all the dirty clothes.
As he tried to leave, he was wandering around with the back door open, muttering, "Do I have everything? Do I have everything?"
I offered to help and he said, "Water!"
There's a bottle in your lunch, i told him, so he nodded once sharply and left.
This is what happens when his mom tells him to get everything up off the floor so no one trips on it. It's up, mostly.
Carl's nemesis is bugs and he's not keen on spiders either.
Which is why it's hard to control such things when he somehow gets a piece of candy stuck to the bottom of his kettle bell.
But there's no fussing at him, he's really just a big kid.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Please note i'm preparing this to post before The Cat Blogosphere has the badges up, when i can get them, i will update.
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Today is Canada Day! I am so thankful for our neighbor to the north.
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Today is ID Your Pet Day. Make sure your pets have microchips and ID tags, it's the best way to make sure if the unthinkable happens and they get away from you, you can find them and bring them home safely.
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Today is American Zoo Day! The first zoo in the US, the Philadelphia Zoo, opened on July 1, 1874.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badges.
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Today is:
Green Corn Ceremonies -- among various Native Americans, honoring maize goddess with thanksgiving for the maize harvest; each area that celebrates has its own date, any time from now until late August, depending on when the corn begins to ripen
Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day -- a great way to start off Ice Cream Month; try a new one and you just might find a new favorite.
Day to Celebrate All the World's Creatures -- commemorates the day in 1975 that endangered species became internationally protected
Doctors' Day -- India
Emancipation Day -- Sint Maarten
Halfway Point of the Year Day / Second Half of the Year Day -- related observance
Half-Year Day -- China
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day -- Hong Kong
Hug a Cowboy Day -- always on Canada Day
Independence Day -- Burundi(1962); Rwanda(1962)
Intact Day -- celebrating genital integrity, as far as possible from the Feast of the Circumcision on Jan. 1
International Chicken Wing Day -- some sites say the 2nd, celebrate today or tomorrow, your choice
International Joke Day -- as declared by many internet sites, but i can't find out why today; then again, why not?
International Reggae Day http://www.ireggaeday.com/
International Tartan Day -- anniversary of the repeal, in 1782, of the Act of Proscription which banned the wearing of Tartans; celebrated especially by Scottish diaspora in Australia; New Zealand
July Morning -- Bulgaria (dates back to the '70s, young and old people hitchhike to the Black Sea in late June to greet the dawn of July 1 with Uriah Heep's hit song July Morning; began as a suble anti-communist protest, now in memory of the fall of communism and to celebrate the start of summer vacation)
Keti Koti -- Suriname (Emancipation Day)
Madeira Day -- Madeira
Memorial Day -- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mount Fuji Official Climbing Season begins -- Japan (through Aug. 31)
Moving Day -- Quebec, Canada
National Boating Day -- US
National Ducks and Wetlands Day -- US (presidential designation in 1990)
National Financial Freedom Day -- can't find how this one started, but it's as good a day as any to take a good look at your finances, and start learning how to better manage them.
National Gingersnap Day
Republic Day -- Ghana; Somalia
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo -- Halifax, NS, Canada (through the 8th)
Sir Seretse Khama Day -- Botswana
Skiraphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of cutting and threshing the grain)
St. Serf of Culross' Day (patron of the Orkney Islands)
Sts. Cosmas and Damian's Day -- Eastern Catholic Churches
Holy Healers' Day -- Bulgaria (a special festival for the two saints/brothers who were healers; celebrated especially by all healers, fortune-tellers, witches, sorceresses and herbalists)
Territory Day -- British Virgin Islands
Unity Day -- Zambia
U.S. Postage Stamp Day -- first US postage stamp issued this day in 1847
Yukon Gold Panning Championships -- Dawson City, YT, Canada
Zip Code Day -- US (inaugural anniversary in 1963; when you mail that letter, zip it up! no zip, slow trip; wrong zip, long trip)
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Albert II of Monaco marries Charlene Whittstock, 2011
Haleakala National Park established, HI, US, 1961
Mammoth Cave National Park established, KY, US, 1941
Dwight D. Eisenhower marries Mamie Geneva Dowd, 1916
Birthdays Today:
Hilary Burton, 1982
Liv Tyler, 1977
Ruud Van Nistelrooy, 1976
Missy Elliott, 1971
Pamela Anderson, 1967
Andre Braugher, 1962
Princess Diana, 1961
Carl Lewis, 1961
Michelle Wright, 1961
Alan Ruck, 1956
Dan Aykroyd, 1952
Deborah Harry, 1945
Karen Black, 1942
Genevieve Bujold, 1942
Twyla Tharp, 1941
Jamie Farr, 1934
Jean Marsh, 1934
Leslie Caron, 1931
Farley Granger, 1925
Olivia DeHavilland, 1916
William James "Willie" Dixon, 1915
Estee Lauder, 1906
Charles Laughton, 1899
Thomas Andrew Dorsey, 1899
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, 1872
Ignaz Semmelweis, 1818
George Sand, 1804
Debuting/Premiering Today:
CourtTV(Network, now TruTV), 1991
"Nick at Nite"(TV), 1985
"The Liberace Show"(TV), 1952
"Mama"(TV), 1949
NBC(Network, first scheduled TV broadcast ever), 1941
Today in History
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor, 69
La Noche Triste: a joint Mexican Indian force led by the Aztec ruler Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadores led by Hernán Cortés, 1520
Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u., 1770
American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 1782
A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales, 1837
U.S. Postage stamps went on sale for the first time, 1847
In the first instance of photojournalism, a French photographer's daguerrotypes of Paris riots were turned into woodcuts so as to be published in the weekly newspaper L'Illustration Journal Universel on this date in 1848
Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands, 1863
The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada, 1867
The Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first US zoo, opens; admission twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children, 1874
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States, 1881
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal, 1908
Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series, 1935
NBC makes the first scheduled television broadcast, 1941
Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved; since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city), 1943
The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family, 1949
Zip Codes are introduced for the U.S.mail, 1963
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto, 1966
The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission, 1967
Sony introduces the Walkman, 1979
O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada, 1980
German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany, 1990
The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule, 1997
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC, 2004
Smoking is banned in all indoor public spaces in England, 2007
The oldest European remains of a white man are discovered in Australia; the Manning River Skull may belong to a man born in 1650, predating the country's history that Captain James Cook was the first to land on Australia's east coast in 1770, 2013
Croatia becomes the twenty-eighth member of the European Union, 2013
Greece becomes the first developed country to default on loans from the International Monetary Fund, 2015
Tedros Adhanom takes office as first African Director-General of the World Health Organization, 2017
Colombia's Chiribiquete National Park is declared a world heritage site by the UN, 2018
Britain's Princes William and Harry unveil a statue of their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 60th birthday, 2021
Germany and Nigeria sign an agreement to return ownership of more than 1,000 Benin Bronzes, looted during colonial times, back to Nigeria, 2022
King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander issues a formal apology for the country's role in the slave trade at the 160th Anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in that country, 2023
The Euclid telescope is launched into space on board Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on mission to create a 3D map of the cosmos and search for dark matter and dark energy, 2023
